timeline

• on 2nd march 1917 the Provisional government gained control
• 12th March: Stalin and Kamenev return to Petrograd
• 3rd April: Lenin returns to Petrograd
• 4th April: April thesis which rejected cooperation with PG 'All power to the Soviet's' and 'peace, bread, land'
• 20/21st April: demonstrations in Petrograd against the war
• 20/21st April: demonstrations in Petrograd against the war
• 4th May: Trotsky returns to Petrograd
• 3-24th June: first all Russian congress of Soviet's meet in Petrograd, dominated by SR's and Menshevik's
• 18th June: Kerensky offensive- an attempt to win support and stop Russia from descending into chaos. Offensive against the Austrian's, this was a failure
• 3-5th July: 'July days' demonstrations- troops loyal to PG open fire on demonstrators
• 8th July: Kerensky becomes PM
• 26th Aug: Kornilov sends troops against Petrograd to 'hang German supporters and Soviet's' and close down the Soviet. This failed
• 8th Sept: Bolshevik's take control of the Petrograd soviet
• 23-25th Oct: October revolution
• Socialist revolutionary (SR) party had been formed in 1901- they hoped for a revolution in the peasants
• PG were mainly aristocratic and wealthy; no relation to peasantry
• cost of living from 1913 to 1917 rose by 1400% which could not be kept on top of